The highest peak in Maine, Katahdin looms large in Maine's history--and continues to hold great importance in our state, culturally and economically. Not only is it a significant landmark and symbol for Native communities, artists and tourists, it's the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail and offers abundant opportunities for outdoor recreation.
Guests
Barry Dana, teacher, artist, former chief of Penobscot Nation
David Little, landscape artist, author, "Art of Katahdin: The Mountain, The Range, The Region"
Jym St. Pierre, board secretary, Friends of Baxter State Park; Maine director, RESTORE: The North Woods; editor, Maine Environmental News
Howard Whitcomb (by phone), historian, former board member for Friends of Baxter State Park
Resources
- Friends Of Baxter: Know Before You Go
- "Katahdin, an Historic Journey: Legends, Explorations, and Preservation of Maine's Highest Peak Mountain," by John W. Neff
- Mount Katahdin as seen by artists over two centuries
- Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history & art
- Maine tribes finish 100-mile Spiritual Run
- Frederic Edwin Church Katahdin paintings
- Teddy Roosevelt would have had high hopes for North Woods monument
- Climbing the Geology and Tectonics of Katahdin: An Exhumed, Glacially Sculpted, Devonian-Age Pluton
- When Thoreau Went Nuts on Maine’s Mt. Katahdin
- Baxter State Park history
- Penobscot Nation elder runs 100-Mile Wilderness in under 48 hours